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Surrogacy (Regulation) Amendment Rules, 2024
March 1 , 2024
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- The Union government modified the Surrogacy (Regulation) Rules, 2022.
- It aims to permit married couples to use donor eggs or donor sperm for surrogacy — a move that provided a big relief to those with medical complications.
- This revoked a previous amendment made in March 2023 that banned the use of such donor gametes.
- Now, the modification allowing married couples to use a donor gamete on the condition that a District Magistrate Board certifies that either the husband or the wife suffers from a medical condition.
- Last year, the 2023 amendment was challenged before the Supreme Court by a woman suffering from the Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser (MRKH) Syndrome.
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